Primary Craftiness

Due to my calling in my ward as 1st counselor in the Primary presidency, I get the sweet opportunity to teach a sharing time message every so often. Well, this time around my topic was preparing to enter the temple.

Something you need to know is that our primary consists of four children.

And they're all 4 yrs old.

Well, I was having a hard time coming up with an object lesson to teach them about being worthy to enter the temple.

But then it hit me.

I should build a cardboard temple!

So I did. And I made temple recommends to go along with it.

The bishop came to primary and talked to the kids about the questions that are asked during a temple recommend interview, and then signed all the recommends. Each kid came up and signed their own and then got to enter the super cool temple.

When they went inside we gave them a key (this symbolized the fact that when we go into the temple we learn how to "unlock" the treasures of heaven) and then at the end of the lesson they got to go back into the temple if they still had their key and get a "treasure" (which was really candy).

Who wouldn't like that?

Primary should always be that much fun!

My awesome neighbor helped me make the temple. She was the one who really made this work.

Here she is painting flowers for the temple grounds.

Here it is in all it's glory.

We realized afterward that we should've covered the whole thing in white BEFORE we painted everything else, but the kids loved it despite its imperfections.

I got a close-up of the front and then the stick figure Angel Moroni on top. :)

Needless to say we are now the coolest primary teachers ever!